Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] down with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though there was consensus among most delegates that production cuts were needed to avoid an oil glut which would weaken prices as demand dipped in the spring , the discussions became bogged down with claims by Kuwait for special treatment . |
| 2 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |
| 3 | He might have sat down with Pascoe and eaten the food and drunk the wine with her murder still at his fingertips . |
| 4 | They feel weighed down with responsibilities , but rarely accept any help . |
| 5 | Aldaniti had broken down with leg trouble , and his trainer Josh Gifford thought his career was over . |
| 6 | In the very beginning she had sat down with Ruth at the small table . |
| 7 | And then back home with Ted and Frieda both asleep and Jo gone , it had all burst up in tears Maggie had squashed down with cigarettes . |
| 8 | Keith , Sue and Brian reappear weighed down with shopping bags , flashing their teeth in wide grins which set off their milky skins . |
| 9 | She dearly wished that her only daughter had settled down with Les Williams , a hardworking friend of her son . |
| 10 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 11 | The snag is at the moment is that annuity rates are n't too hot , cos they 've gone down with interest rates , so er I think maybe that I 'd hold off doing that until later , and use other types of investment , and then maybe at maturity , roll it back into , into erm a er single premium annuity . |
| 12 | The doctor said there was nothing wrong with me , but the Operation Raleigh people rang to warn us : they had been in the rainforest at the same time as us , and 50 to 60 per cent of their people had gone down with river blindness . |
| 13 | ‘ A couple have broken down with back injuries and never fully reestablished themselves . |
| 14 | A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening . |